How can you believe it, can you understand it,
that anyone should be born with so much stupidity in him
that he would take pleasure in wickedness?”
4. Postscript . — “I flatter myself that this little history is of that curious nature, and on matters hitherto so unobserved, that I consider it, with pride, as a valuable New Year’s gift to the present world; and that posterity will accept it, as the like, for many years after, and read it over on that anniversary, and call it their Warning Piece. I must have my Exegi-Monumentum, as well as others.”